Just a reply to the concept of singing and fluency.
I teach first grade and we begin each day with a morning sing... something I
decided was a must after responsive training inservice. In fact, in my old
district, morning sing was a school wide affair that began each day.
Now I am not talk
Very eloquently stated case for more song in the classroom. Thank you.
Personally, I have a thing for the lyrics of Cole Porter, Ira Gerschwin,
Irving Berlin, and Hammerstein - the old show tunes.
At 09:36 AM 5/27/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Just a reply to the concept of singing and fluency.
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We, too, begin our morning meeting time singing and reading poetry.
Each child has a copy for his own Poetry & Song folder. And each
song/poem is on a big chart stand. We get lots of uses for these as
Kukonis mentioned. Many minilessons refer back to our songs, lots of
word work but also in
http://www.jmeacham.com/calendar.htm#s.p.inserts
These are great songs and poems based on the months of the year. It
will teach the kids how to spell the months and what goes on each
month. They are set to old songs, such as April was a bicycle built
for two!
Julie
On May 27, 2007, at 10:
I like the folk music from the sixties. My kids knew all the protest songs.
I introduced them during a unit on Civil Rights and the kids loved them, so
they became classroom classics. My kids also loved parodies and silly songs
like the Albuquerque Turkey song.
Lori
On 5/27/07 8:45 AM, "Tim Ra
